Lovers in Leicester: A Twentieth-Century Gay Couple

By Jo Somerset LGBTQ, United Kingdom

Jo Somerset reads between the lines to decipher a gay couple’s secret life in Leicester during the twentieth century.

Lesbianism and the Criminal Law: Three Centuries of Legal Regulation in England and Wales

By Caroline Derry LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, United Kingdom

A socio-legal history of lesbianism and the criminal law from the eighteenth century to the present.

Her Neighbor’s Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire within Marriage

By Lauren Gutterman 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

Her Neighbor’s Wife traces the stories of hundreds of women who struggled to balance marriage and same-sex desire in the postwar United States.

Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole

By Matthew Reeve LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, United Kingdom

Aesthetic preferences of Horace Walpole’s coterie cannot be understood independently from their own sexual preferences.

Plausible Crime Stories: The Legal History of Sexual Offences in Mandate Palestine

By Orna Alyagon-Darr Empire and Colonialism, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Sexual Violence

This first study of the legal history of sex offences in Mandate Palestine pioneers a new socio-cultural perspective on evidence: plausibility.

Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism

By Taylor G. Petrey 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Religion and Sexuality

Tabernacles of Clay sets Mormonism in the broader history of sexuality in modernity by documenting and theorizing the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, religion, and social change.

Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries

By Bruce Henderson LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Pedagogy

Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries is designed as an introductory textbook for undergraduate courses in this rapidly growing field.